Man Charged with Kidnap/Torturing Wife

[Willowdared]

SIGNONSANDIEGO NEWS SERVICES
5:28 p.m. May 24, 2007
SAN DIEGO – An East County man was behind bars Thursday and facing a slate of criminal charges for allegedly kidnapping his wife and torturing her with a stun gun because he believed she was having an affair.

Detectives arrested Cal C. Johnson, 47, in Lemon Grove on Wednesday, according to sheriff's officials.

Authorities had been looking for the Jamul resident since the previous day, when a passer-by found his nude and terrified wife in a remote area off Proctor Valley Road, near Chula Vista.
The woman reported that Johnson had abducted her from her home over the weekend and taken her to Mexico, officials said. He then purportedly waited for nightfall and brought her back into the United States, taking her to the back-country location where she later was found.

There, Johnson allegedly began shocking her with the electric self-defense device in an attempt to force her to confess to his accusations. The woman reported that her husband assaulted her with the stun gun more than 150 times, according to investigators.

She eventually managed to escape, then spent the entire ensuing night hiding in brush as her husband traipsed through the area, looking for her. Early the next morning, a motorist found her and got help for her.

Deputies then began searching for Johnson – who was believed to be armed with at least four guns and possibly planning to kill his wife and children – but initially only found his vehicle abandoned in Rancho San Diego.

Detectives ultimately traced Johnson to a motel. Members of a special enforcement detail surrounded the building and arrested Johnson without incident when he walked out of his rented room.

Johnson was booked into county jail on suspicion of kidnapping, torture, assault with a deadly weapon, spousal abuse, sex assault and making death threats, authorities said.

He was being held on $5 million bail pending an arraignment hearing scheduled for Friday afternoon in El Cajon.

[smokey703]

Wow, 5 mill. That is unheard of in my area. At the begining of this month I responded to a traffic crash caused by a drunk driver in which 2 women died and a woman that was 7 mnths pregnant lost her child and his bond was half a million. After a couple days of him sitting in the parish jail his bond was reduced to $ 10,000.00. In the case posted above the offender would have probably got a $ 150,000.00 dollar bond and it probably would have gotten reduced to $ 50,000.00 or maybe even $ 25,000.00. Then when it would come time for sentencing he probably would have gotten a couple of years probation just like the woman that shot her husband and got a no true bill from the Grand Jury for 2nd degree murder and was put on 5 yrs. probation for manslaughter.

[Willowdared]

Well, the median house price here is 1/2 million, so they have to set the bond high.